Course Content
The following global ideas guide the design and delivery of this course:
- Practicum settings give students opportunities to synthesize personal and classroom experience with a diverse population
- Learners enhance their skills through relationship with young people and their support systems
- Reflecting on practicum experiences with clients, colleagues, and mentors enhances/encourages ongoing professional development and effectiveness
- Students engage with youth to enhance/encourage their healthy development through appropriate activities
- Ethical and professional practice requires a strength-based, trauma-informed, culturally sensitive approach to working with youth
- Due to the relational nature of the work, self-awareness and personal wellness are integral in maintaining healthy and productive relationships
Means of Assessment
Evaluation of this practicum is two staged and designed to produce a letter grade in accordance with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy.
- Stage I: An evaluation of the student's ability to meet basic work expectations and youth justice practicum competencies in practice. The mastery level for this stage is 80%.
- Stage II: Providing the conditions are successfully met in Stage I, the student's final grade will be arrived at by adding the mark achieved in Stage I to the mark received for the written practicum assignments.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Exemplify professional and ethical principles of youth justice practice as required through YJ practicum competencies and the policies of the practicum sites.
2. Demonstrate relational practice and appropriate activities with youth, in consultation with their site and faculty supervisors.
3. Apply a trauma-informed perspective, cultural awareness and sensitivity, and strength-based professional practice while on practicum.
4. Reflectively examine their own and others' field experiences to identify and integrate goals for ongoing personal and professional development.
5. Identify and integrate theory to identified needs, explain behaviour, and guide actions.